|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
Japan
Maritime Self-Defense Force - JMSDF
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
Natsushio class Submarine - SS
|
|||||||||
|
sorry, no image |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Units: |
|||||||||
|
unit |
laid down |
launched |
commissioned |
decommissioned |
|||||
|
SS 523 JDS Natsushio |
December 5, 1961 |
September 18, 1962 |
June 29, 1963 |
March 20, 1978 |
|||||
|
SS 524 JDS Fuyushio |
December 6, 1961 |
December 14, 1962 |
September 17, 1963 |
June 10, 1980 |
|||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
NOTES: both
units were finally scrapped in 1983 BUILDER: Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries, Japan and Kawasaki Shipbuilding, Kobe, Japan |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Specifications: |
||||||||
|
Length: |
61 meters |
|||||||
|
Beam: |
6,4 meters |
|||||||
|
Draft: |
4,1 meters |
|||||||
|
Displacement: |
790 tons (surfaced) / 940 tons (submerged) |
|||||||
|
Speed: |
11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced / 15 knots (28
km/h) submerged |
|||||||
|
Range: |
9000 NM (16700 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h) on
diesels 40 hrs at 3 knots (5,5 km/h) submarged on
batteries |
|||||||
|
Crew: |
40 |
|||||||
|
Operational depth: |
500 feet (152 meters) test depth |
|||||||
|
Propulsion: |
DIESEL-ELECTRIC 2 x
Mitsubishi 6LDA25B diesel engines 2 x
electric-motors (2 x 120-cell lead-acid batteries) 900 bhp surfaced / 2300 shp submerged 2 shafts / 2
propellers |
|||||||
|
Armament: |
3 x 21-inch
(533mm) torpedo tubes |
|||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
images: |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
| seaforces.org | Japan
Maritime Self-Defense Force start page | |
|||||||||
